Heinrich Rietsch

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Heinrich Rietsch (born September 22, 1860 in Falkenau an der Eger , † December 12, 1927 in Prague ), born in Heinrich Löwy , was an Austrian musicologist and composer of Bohemian origin.

Life

Heinrich Rietsch was born as Heinrich Loewy. His parents were the Falkenauer lawyer and Kuk notary Dr. Karl Leopold Loewy (* 1834 Ingrowitz ), who was of Jewish origin and converted to a Catholic denomination, and Theresia, daughter of the imperial and royal tax collector Friedrich Rietsch at Gut Perglas near Falkenau. He received his first music lessons from his mother, whose family name he adopted in 1883. He studied law at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1883 . He also studied music and musicology with Eduard Hanslick , Guido Adler , Franz Krenn , Eusebius Mandyczewski and Robert Fuchs . While he was a civil servant, he continued his studies and received his habilitation in 1895 . He taught at the Charles University in Prague as a private lecturer at the Institute for Musicology he founded himself, and from 1900 on Adler was an associate professor . In 1909 he became a full professor. In addition, he was chairman of the Prague German Chamber Music Association . He headed the institute he founded until his death. One of his students was Erich Steinhard .

Rietsch belonged to the school of Viennese musicology founded by Guido Adler. His main focus was on the field of style criticism and music aesthetics , song research and studying the music of the Baroque and Romantic periods . In the publications of the Society for the Publication of Monuments of Music Art in Austria , he edited numerous compositions from historical manuscripts, for example by Johann Joseph Fux and Georg Muffat .

Fonts

  • The art of music in the 2nd half of the 19th century. A contribution to the history of musical technology . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1900
  • The German way of song. Songs and fragments from a manuscript from the 14th / 15th centuries Century . Vienna: Fromme 1904
  • The basics of the art of music. Attempt to develop a presentation of general music theory . Leipzig 1907
  • Atonality . Warnsdorf: Strache 1927

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Individual evidence

  1. Son of the factory director Jakob Löwy in Mährisch-Neustadt and Juditha geb. Fleischmann, Traumatrik Falkenau 1857, p. 298
  2. Taufmatrik Falkenau, Vol. 15, 1853-1860, p. 173